Reddit mentions of The Wisdom of Harry Potter: What Our Favorite Hero Teaches Us About Moral Choices

It's interesting of how you're using this idea that somehow since the book is for kids, it can't have significant implications in it as well. If we actually choose to look beyond the first 3 inches, one can find an awful lot to examine.

1. Lets start with werewolves. Remus Lupin is outed by society for having a crippling health condition that he can't help. Yup, it's a metaphor for the aids epidemic. "But that's so obvious!" You exclaim. Fine.
   
   
2. Rowling uses a ridiculous amount of references from classic mythology, not only in creatures, but in her names and plots.
   Minerva McGonagal? Minerva is the Roman Goddess of wisdom. Fluffy, or cerberus, happens to guard the place which contains the key to eternal life? I'm sure Orpheus would be Jealous. All the latin, describing the function of spells (and a mirror)? But I mean all kids know latin, right?
   
   
3. Rowling thought the books through well in advance: While there are many points that she didn't have entirely fleshed out, there are tons of factors that show she was thinking about the overarching plot as a whole. For instance, Rowling always knew Sirius Black was one of James Potter's best friends. Sirius Black is mentioned in chapter one of book one. The horcruxes are obviously not mentioned until book 6, but rowling had the general idea in mind by book 2 (7 years before book 6 came out).
   
   
4. Authors smarter than either of us think that Harry Potter is more than just a children's book.
   Steven King:
   > The fantasy writer's job is to conduct the willing reader from mundanity to magic. This is a feat of which only a superior imagination is capable, and Rowling possesses such equipment. She has said repeatedly that the Potter novels are not consciously aimed at any particular audience or age. The reader may reasonably question that assertion after reading the first book in the series, but by the time he or she has reached ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,'' it becomes increasingly clear that the lady means what she says. Nor can there be any question that her stated refusal to dumb down the language of the books (the current one is presented with such British terms as petrol, pub and cuppa unchanged) has lent the stories an attraction to adults that most children's novels simply don't have.
   
   
5. Theres been an [awful] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003NSBDYI/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1) Lot
   ofLiterature written about Harry Potter for a series that's only 3 inches deep.
   
   That's my two cents anyways.
   
   

Just to add some Potter stuff here...
The Wisdom of Harry Potter: What Our Favorite Hero Teaches Us about Moral Choices by Edmund Kern